Camille Paglia on Madonna’s influence in pop culture: @Time Magazine August 27, 2013:
“Young performers will probably never equal or surpass the genuine shocks delivered by the young #Madonna, as when she sensually rolled around in a lacy wedding dress and thumped her chest with the mic while singing “Like a Virgin” at the first MTV awards show in 1984. Her influence was massive and profound, on a global scale.
But more important, Madonna, a trained modern dancer, was originally inspired by work of tremendous quality — above all, Marlene Dietrich’s glamorous movie roles as a bisexual blond dominatrix and Bob Fosse’s stunningly forceful strip-club choreography for the 1972 film Cabaret, set in decadent Weimar-era Berlin. Today’s aspiring singers, teethed on frenetically edited small-screen videos, rarely have direct contact with those superb precursors and are simply aping feeble imitations of Madonna at 10th remove.
The greatest performers, like Madonna in a canonical video such as ‘Vogue,’ know how to use suggestion and mystery to project the magic of sexual allure.”
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